US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 8 for "Remote control system, remote control method, and remote control program for performing haptic control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,541, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Remote control system, remote control method, and remote control program for performing haptic control" was invented by Kazuki Kurashima (Kobe, Japan), Hitoshi Hasunuma (Kobe, Japan) and Masayuki Kamon (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control system includes an operator to be operated by an operating person, a robot that moves according to operation on the operator, a haptic notifier that notifies occurrence of contact of the robot with an object to the operating person, and a controller that performs force control of moving the robot ac...